This chapter addresses the effect of the “Roma Lives Matter” movement in Romanian society by looking at a specific case from the literary scene related to the publication and the literary awards received by the novel Kaspar’s Childhood (2017). The book includes racial slurs towards Roma people while also portraying the Roma characters as inhabiting the lowest level of society. The chapter analyses the response from the Romanian literary scene to the Roma activist Valeriu Nicolae’s call for a dialogue regarding past and current Roma discrimination and its manifestations. Qualitative and critical discourse analyses (CDA) reveal the power matrix displayed in the discussions generated by Nicolae’s critique of the novel and the literary scene response. In this way, this chapter aims to contextualise the process of tackling challenging narratives of the past in the context of memory and decolonisation studies in Romania. It demonstrates that the effects of the perpetuation of stereotypical identity constructions on the Roma and the reproduction of structural discrimination continue to remain largely unexplored in the Romanian literary scene.